Royally cute: Mulroney grandkids make splash at wedding

Shannon Donnelly @pbdnsociety

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Aug 12, 2018 at 12:01 AMAug 12, 2018 at 12:07 PM

Leave it to a quintet of Canadians to steal the show from the Crowned Heads of Europe.

The Mulroney Five — 7-year-old twins Brian and John, their angelic 4-year-old sis Ivy and their strikingly attractive parents Jessica and Ben — were up front at the wedding Saturday of the now-Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

Ok, Brian. You’re getting a TV in your room for the summer.

A post shared by Ben Mulroney (@benmulroney) on May 19, 2018 at 9:33am PDT

“They did so well,” Palm Beach winter resident Mila Mulroney said with grandmotherly pride of the twins, who were train bearers for bride Meghan Markle.

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WINDSOR, UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 19: Meghan Markle is driven to St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle along with her page boys Brian and John Mulroney at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle before the wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle on May 19, 2018 in Windsor, England. (Photo by Toby Melville- WPA Pool/Getty Images)

One of the twins, Brian, created an internet sensation when he appeared in a news photograph with his joyful gap-toothed smile, peering happily over the bride’s shoulder. The photo immediately went viral on social media.

Tweeted one watcher: “This happy kid with the missing front teeth? He is every one of us!”

Brian was initially misidentified as his brother John, but their father Ben corrected the error with his own Instagram.

Hey — identical twins, both missing their front teeth and both the spitting miniature image of their grandfather, former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney? Only a parent could tell the difference.

Ben is the handsome guy seated at the front, proudly watching his boys, along with their sister, 4-year-old Ivy, who concentrated on her bridesmaid’s role with such earnestness that even that perpetual sourpuss Prince Philip tossed her a smile.

Ben’s wife, Jessica, a close friend of the newly minted Duchess, was at his side in a cobalt blue dress that won wide acclaim from fashion watchers.